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The Language of Letting Go (Hazelden Meditation Series)
Melody Beattie
Hazelden, 1990
Taking Care of Ourselves
A decade or so ago a friend who was going through a rough patch in her life had a therapist who highly recommended this book of meditations. I happened to be in Barnes and Noble with her when she bought Melody Beattie's book, and after perusing a few of the passages, I ...
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Story: Substance, Structure, Style and The Principles of Screenwriting
Robert Mckee
HarperEntertainment, 1997
Essential reading for any writer
I've read a lot of fiction help books, but most of them are geared at the mechanics and tricks of fiction. None of them, in my opinion, philosophically tackles the concept of story telling and how stories work. Instead, they give tips and techniques like "put in rising ...
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Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines
Nic Sheff
Ginee Seo Books, 2008
great book
This is one of a kind book. It is the kind where you really cannot read too long , but you cannot stay away from reading too long either.
It shows you the scary reality of our young generation who can easily get hooked to bad lifestyle and refuses to know how or when ...
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Out of the Shadows: Understanding Sexual Addiction
Patrick J. Carnes
Hazelden, 2001
Enlightening
Carnes does a great job of not only showing how destructive sexual addiction can be, but also how slippery the slope is so that the addict can easily fall into the illegal and extremely shameful without realization or intent.
Along with this dire warning, he also ...
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Identical
Ellen Hopkins
Margaret K. McElderry, 2008
Poetry and trainwrecks: the Beauty of not looking Away.
I love Ellen Hopkins and was overjoyed to see her creation making its way to me. The way she creates her little character paradigms - the writing that says more that it first seems to say, the way words arrange to make a maze of meanings, her displays that land ...
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The Easy Way to Stop Smoking: Join the Millions Who Have Become Non-Smokers Using Allen Carr's Easyway Method
Allen Carr
Sterling, 2005
The BEST solution to quitting forever!
I had tried the patch, gum, cold turkey & even some online quit smoking support groups, and still went back to smoking when my life was impacted with high stress.
It wasn't until I read Alan Carr's book that I finally understood the reasons of addiction to nicotine ...
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Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself
Melody Beattie
Hazelden, 1992
Codependent No More
I haven't finished reading it yet but just by reading introduction and couple of chapters, I knew that book was what I was searching for... It is just what I need to get through difficult time...
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The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery
Chris Prentiss
Power Press, 2005
Great perspective
This book helped to give me a different perspective of my husband's issues with alcohol. This book gave me hope that a cure to alcoholism is possible if someone is willing. The chapter that helped me personally the most is the one that talks about nothing that ...
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Alcoholics Anonymous - Big Book 4th Edition
AA Services
Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc., 2002
This book has saved hundreds of thousands of liveslives!
This book tells exactly how hundreds of thousands of real alcoholics have been saved from alcoholism. How can anyone be critical of that if it works? Only the stupid, or ignorant can criticize a book which has literally saved so many people from certain death (not to ...
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Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction
David Sheff
Houghton Mifflin Co, 2008
A MUST READ For EVERY Parent
This was an amazing, heartwrenching true story about a father who is dealing with his son's addiction to meth. I loved this book and feel that it is a MUST READ for every parent in America.
David Sheff was able to write the most tragic story of his life ...
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Glass
Ellen Hopkins
Margaret K. McElderry, 2007
Great
I ordered this for my granddaughter and she loved it. It's the 2nd book she's read by this author and eventually wants to read them all.
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The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Tom Wolfe
Picador, 2008
Interesting and well-written
Tom Wolfe takes us through part of the acid-movement of the 60's with Ken Kesey (author of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest") and company as they embark on their journey across America to popularize acid. Wolfe writes in a way that sort of makes you feel that you are ...
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Facing Love Addiction: Giving Yourself the Power to Change the Way You Love
Pia Mellody, Andrea Wells Miller, ...
HarperOne, 1992
Simple and astounding
My beloved yoga teacher recommended I read this.
I highly recommend this book.
Personally, it has been a profound experience. I can now see this is a pattern of behavior that others have gone through as well.
I have felt alone. and reading this book has ...
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Crank
Ellen Hopkins
Simon Pulse, 2004
Life with the Monster
Life with the Monster
While visiting her good for nothing father, 17-year-old Kristina meets the guy she thinks is the love of her life and is introduced to the "MONSTER". It's taking over Kristina and turning her into Bree, who is her negative alter ego. Switching ...
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The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star
Nikki Sixx
Pocket Books, 2007
Interesting read about addiction
I didn't know I was going to enjoy reading about someone's drug addiction so much! I am not an addict and its not something I ever thought I would read about in this type of forum but I like Motley Crue and Nikki.
I think what makes this book so interesting is that ...
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